RT-N66u USB ext3 no write permission

[pncu]

I have a Rt-n66u that is running on Merlin's firmware.

I've been using a 2tb seagate goflex drive formatted to ntfs connected to the usb slot as my NAS which was decent.

I wanted to install Transmission on it so I could dl stuff overnight with comp turned off but Transmission/Optware/entware requires EXT2/EXT3 to install.

So I moved all my files then formatted to EXT3 using gparted and moved all my files back which took forever.

Now, I plug it back into the router and it is connecting ok BUT I have no write permission.
I can read any file from it I want, but no matter what I do, I can't write anything onto the drive. It keeps saying I do not have permission to do it.

I removed the drive and plugged it directly into my windows 7 laptop and i can write to it just fine using ext2volumemanager. I plugged it into 2 other computers in the house and I can write to it.
Its just when it is plugged into the router, I can't write to it.

Any ideas?

 

[stevech]

Not much expertise... but is there a utility in the router itself to partition/format, rather than doing so on a computer? Maybe with a GUI? I'd think there would be, for the average joe to reformat a drive for use on the router. Or maybe the router scripts automate this if the drive is formatted FAT or NTFS.

tangent: Does ext2volumemanager and extfsd run in 64 bit Windows 7? Last revision was summer of 2011 and the readme files weren't clear on this.

 

[pncu]

the one i'm using is 32bit.

Thanks for your input.
I reformatted and its partly working. Some folders I can write into some folders I can't.

I'll figure it out later I guess.